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To: koan who wrote (28901)	9/27/2012 8:13:31 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

"Piece of cake" Really? Amundsen went through the NW passage over 100 ya. It opened up August 21, 2007 and again August 25, 2008 according to wikipedia. Also: In recent years at least one scheduled cruise liner (the MS Bremen in 2006) has successfully run the Northwest Passage, [49] helped by satellite images telling where sea ice was. .... On November 28, 2008, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the Canadian Coast Guard confirmed the first commercial ship sailed through the Northwest Passage. .... In 2009 sea ice conditions were such that at least nine small vessels and two cruise ships completed the transit of the Northwest Passage. I think every summer there's usually an interval when ships can transit the northwest passage. And I think the satellite images mentioned above have something to do with why it's getting safer to do. I think I should point out that Eskimos migrated from western Alaska around the northern coast of Alaska, through the Canadian arctic islands to and down the coast of Greenland over the past few thousand years. Their way of life was dependent on use of the sea to hunt marine mammals, whales, seals, etc. If there were no open seas in the arctic they wouldn't have been able to live along the Canadian arctic shore, much less migrate thousands of miles from western Alaska to Greenland.